Voting-booth.



No. 831,703. PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906. DE WITT BRUCE & W. M. DELAVAN.

VOTING BOOTH. ARPLIQATION FILED FEB.15.1906.

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W/TNESSES A TTORNE) No. 831,703. PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906. DE WITT BRUCE & W. M. DBLAVAN.

VOTING BOO-TH. APPLICATION FILED 313.15. 1906.

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WITNESSES wrrr sec Ennn wrLLAan M. nELAvAnfor rrr'rsrrnnn, MASSA- onuserrs. .issie vonsro TRIUMPH'VOTING MACHINE oourinvr,v

OF PTTTSFTELD, MBrSSAUl-IUSETTS; ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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- a portable knockdown voting-booth adapted for general use at elections, and especially adapted for use in connection with votingmachines. I I

NVith this and other objects in view wehave devised the novel sectional voting-booth of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, reference characters being used -to indicate the several parts.

. Figure 1 is a plan view of our novel votin booth Withthe roof removed; Fig. 2, a si e elevation on areduced scale, the point of view being from the bottom of the sheet in 1 Fig. 3, an end elevation, the point of VIEW being from the right in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a

detail view, on an enlarged scale,'showing one of the sides and a portion of the roof in end elevation; and Fig. 5 isa detail view, on an enlarged scale, illustrating a mode of joining the sections. l

The idea of our present invention is to render it unnecessary to hire rooms forvoting 12, 'roo'fsections; 13, flooring, and 14 skill.

vention.

purposes or to build frame structures, but to avoid this expense and inconvenience by proriding sectional structures which will be durable,'weatherproof, light, and easy to transport, will occupy but relatively littlespace in storage, and can be easily and quickly put up on any vacant space by persons of ordinary The special size and shape of thebuilding is of course not of the essence of the in- In the drawings we have illustrated a-building consisting of fourteen vertical sections, four 'on'eachsideand three at each end. The floor may orrnay not be laid in sections. The roof is preferably made in sections corresponding in number with; t side sections. 1

1O denotesside sections; 11, end sections; top crossieces. In t e present instance we have illustrated a voting-booth arranged for two voting-min Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed February 15,1906. Serial No 301,321.

Patented sept. 25, 1906.

chines, which are indicated by 15; The booth is pr'ovidedwith one entrance (indicated by 16) which is placedat one end near the cor-.

the middle of one of the sides, the side at the bottom of the sheet, as indicated in Fig. 1. The entrance and exit are preferably provided with doors, as indicated by 18. Voters entering the booth pass along, an. entrancepassagefindicated by 19) to' a turnstile, (indicated by 20.) At the turnstile the voters are checked in the usual manner on voting-lists by checkers within'the checkers space, (indicated by 21.) After passing the checkers or.

other officials the voters are directed in either direction,'as indicated by the arrows. In the passage, (indicated by 22,) the yoter faces the back of a voting-machine. He then operates the entrance-lever 23 of the voting-machine,

where-he votes, standing in the voting-space,

(indicated by 24.) After voting the voter operates the exit-lever 25 of the voting-machine and passes through exit-passage 26 to the exit. Half of the voters are-supposed to pass in one direction and vote at one voting-machine and half in the opposite directionto vote at the other voting-machine. Voters passing in the opposite direction from that already described pass along passage 27 and face the back of the'other voting-machine, it beingunderstood, of course,that no' voter is \allowed to enter either passage 22 or 27 until the last voter has completed the operation of voting and has operated the exit-lever of the machine in that passage. The voter in passage 27operates the entrance-lever 23 of the voting-machine in that passage and passes around to the front of the machine, where he votes, standing in the voting-space, (indicated by 28.) Alter'voting the voter operates the exit-lever 25' of the voting-machine and passes through exit-passage 29 to the exit.

'Exit-turnstiles 30 are shown in exit-passages 26 and 29, although, if preferred, a single turnstile may be placed at the exit, as indicated by dotted lines. The entrance and exit turnstiles, or either of them, may or may not be provided with registers to indicate the nunib er of voters passing. A voter standing in voting-space 24 and voting at the left vot 55 nor, the right upper corner, as shownin Fig. v 1, and with one exit, which isplaced near ing-machine, as seen in Fig. 1, is wholly concealed from the'view ofthe offici'als in the checkers space.

i In order that a voter standing in votingspace-28 and voting at the right voting-machine, as seenin Fig. 1, may be whollyconcealed from the View of the officials in the checkers space, we

other passages and spaces are merely separated byrailings, (indicated by 32,) supported byposts,(indicatedby33.) Another partition 34 atthe right of the fightvoting-mae'hine renders it impossible for a voter to pass from posed may be made of any suitable material,

entrance-passage 19 to exit-passage 29.

The sections of which the booth is'comas canvas or sheet metal, secured to suitable framework or a wooden sheathing secured to suitable framework. The roof-sections likewise may be made of canvas, sheet metal, or

wooden sheathing. Skylights, (indicated by 35,) are provided in the roof over the checkers andvoting spaces and elsewhere, if desirable, and windows 36 may be placed 1n the sections as re uired. i The side and end sections are provi ed at their mid-length and at their up- 'passages lead, a checkers space intermediate the voting-spaces, and exit-passages leading from the voting-spaces. i

2. A voting-booth comprisingan entrancepassage, passages leadingin opposite directions therefrom, voting-spaces to which said I -passages lead, a checker s space intermediate the voting-spaces, and exit-passages leading rovide a partition 31,- which whollyconcea s him from view. The

common exit.

from the voting-spacesand terminating at a I 3. A voting-booth comprising an entranceassage, aturnstile in said passage, passages eadmg therefrom in opposite dlrections, voting-spaces to which said" passages lead, a' checkers space intermediate the voting-' spaces, exit-passages leading from the voting spaces to a common exit, and aturnstile intermediate the voting-spaces and the exit.

4. A voting-booth comprising an entrancepassage, passages leading in opposite directions therefrom, voting-spaces to which said passages lead, a checkers space intermediate the voting-spaces, a partition partly inclosing one of the voting-spaces, for the purpose set tions therefrom, voting-spaces to which said passages lead, a checkers space intermediate the voting-spaces, eXit-passages leading from the -voting-spaces and railing, bywhich said passages and spaces are defined.

6.. A knockdown voting-booth comprisingend and side sections, one end section being provided with an entrance and one side sec tion with an exit, transverse strips on the side and end sections, intermediate vertical strips engaged by the transverse str ps, top

forth, and exit-passages leading from the vot- 'ing-space's. I

5. A voting-booth comprisingan entrance- -passage', passages leading in opposite direccross-strips, roof-sections secured to'th'e side and end sections, and railings by which the interior is divlded into an entrance-passage,

passages leading in opposite directions therefrom, voting-spaces, a checkers space ntermediate'the voting-spacesand exit-passages leading from the voting-spaces.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses. Q

DE WITT BRUCE.

Witnesses:

M. BJWARNER, 7 WM. SHILLABER.

WILLARD M. DELAVAN: I 

